Download or read book Essays on Poverty Well being and Health in Developing Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Child Health in Developing Countries written by Samantha Benvinda Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Health in Developing Countries written by Anna Welander Tärneberg and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Health and Education in Developing Countries written by Eugenie Windkouni Haoua Maîga and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Health and Labor Supply in Developing Countries written by Douglas Marshall McKee and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second chapter, co-authored with Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas, we combine data from a population-based longitudinal survey with satellite measures of aerosol levels to assess the impact on adult health of smoke from forest fires that blanketed the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in late 1997. To account for unobserved differences between haze and nonhaze areas, we compare changes in the health of individual respondents. Between 1993 and 1997, individuals who were exposed to haze experienced greater increases in difficulty with activities of daily living than did their counterparts in nonhaze areas. The results for respiratory and general health, although more complicated to interpret, suggest that haze had a negative impact on these dimensions of health.

Download or read book Essays on Education Gender and Child Health in Developing Countries written by Marian Meller and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Education and Health in Developing Countries written by Booyuel Kim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our research design to study the complementarities of these interventions is based on the randomized allocation of the different mix of interventions across classrooms. Our preliminary results indicate limited evidence of complementarities among the three interventions.

Download or read book Essays on Health Behaviors in Developing Countries written by Md Ferdous Zaman Sardar and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three essays on how access to health care and health information affect health behaviors and health beliefs in developing countries. In the first chapter, I study why rural households in Bangladesh keep seeking health advice from untrained informal providers when mobile health services (MHS) are freely available from qualified public healthcare providers and how they can be nudged to adopt the MHS. Using a randomized controlled trial among 2900 rural households from 580 neighborhoods in Bangladesh, this paper studies whether and how the adoption of mobile health services can be improved. I find that information about the service improves households’ awareness by more than 30 percentage points but does not affect the adoption in the following two months. Among the participants who were also encouraged to call at one of the MHS phone numbers to see how the service works, 63% attempted during the intervention and 22% of them used the service in the following two months. The adoption of MHS decreases households’ health expenditure, mostly driven by the reduction in medicine consumption. This happened because households, who adopted MHS, also made fewer visits to informal providers who usually overprescribe medicine. The second chapter studies how information can affect people’s health risk beliefs and health behaviors. The local prevalence of infections and the severity of its consequences are among the key determinants of the adoption of preventive behaviors for an infectious disease. By conducting a survey among more than 2000 adults in Bangladesh, I find that most people either do not know or underestimate the local prevalence of COVID-19 infections and overestimate its fatality rate. In a randomized experiment, I give the treatment group information about the coronavirus case number in their districts and the case fatality rate in Bangladesh and worldwide. Immediately after receiving the information, the treatment group perceives higher infection risk. Nine to fifteen days after the intervention, those who received information underestimate the local prevalence less and, consequently, still perceive higher infection risk than the control group. The treatment group also updates their belief about the fatality rate downward. Potentially due to this countervailing update of risk beliefs, the information does not have any effect on the self-reported preventive behaviors. In the final chapter, I develop a simple model which illustrates why opposition leaders can be very effective for the COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign. To test this empirically, I also conduct an experiment in Bangladesh where 3,781 individuals in Bangladesh randomly received information about COVID-19 and its vaccines, the vaccination status of ruling and opposition leaders. While all treatments improved confidence on COVID-19 vaccines, the information about the opposition leaders’ vaccination status decreased the perceived side effects. The participants from the opposition treatment are 11 percentage points more likely to intend to get vaccinated than the participants of the information treatment.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries written by Eiji Mangyo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Health Economics in Developing Countries written by María Paola Zuniga Brenes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Economics of Public Health Insurance in Developing Countries written by Phatta Kirdruang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Microeconometric Analysis of Health in Developing Countries written by Norman Maldonado (Medical economist) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyzes health human capital issues in developing countries. The first two essays examine the production of human capital at the household level, and the third essay analyzes supply of health care services.

Download or read book Essays on Labour and Health Economics in Developing Countries written by Fjolla Kondirolli and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note is part of Quality testing.

Download or read book Essays on Development and Health Economics written by Jianan Yang and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a collection of three essays on development and health economics. In the first essay, we studied two interventions that provide patients with information on antibiotic resistance through text messages in Beijing, China. The "self-health" intervention emphasizes the threat to one's own health and is found to have negligible effects. In contrast, the "social-health" intervention highlighting the threat to society reduces antibiotic purchases by 17% without discouraging healthcare visits and other medicine purchases. Survey evidence suggests the perceived severity being a potential explanation. The messages were sent once every month for five months, and a gradual decrease in the effect size is observed over time. The second essay evaluated the affordability and overuse trade-off in pharmaceutical pricing by studying a drug procurement program in China, which brought down the prices of 10 chronic condition drugs by an average of 78%. Using a difference-in-differences design with a set of comparable drugs as controls, we find that this improvement in affordability led to a significant increase in demand by uninsured patients, whose purchases of treated drugs increased by 28.4% more than the insured. This demand response came both from new and existing medication takers. Drug adherence was improved for the uninsured who had poorer adherence at baseline but overuse was not affected. The third essay proposes two experiments related to low disease awareness, treatment take-up, and adherence in developing countries. Because of lacking access to primary care services, chronic condition awareness in developing countries is usually low. The first experiment proposes to provide people in low-income areas with physical exams and health reports to examine whether raising disease awareness could increase control. The second experiment proposes to provide patients with information on the expected benefit from treatment including the expected reduction in risk if their condition is under control, and the cost of a major health event. This experiment is designed to test the hypothesis that misperception of treatment benefits is one of the underlying causes for low take-up and adherence rates conditional on disease awareness in developing countries.

Download or read book Advancing Health in Developing Countries written by Lincoln C. Chen and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world? This question is at the heart of this collection of essays drawn from Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored conferences at Harvard University. The book examines the theoretical impact of social science research as well as specific case studies of successful applied research. Beginning with a section on broad issues and the conceptualization of behavioral change, the volume then examines the anti-smoking movement in the United States; measures to prevent and control HIV infection in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States; anti-malaria measures; and the application of dietary management and lot quality assurance sampling to public health issues in Peru. The volume concludes with a section re-examining ways social science research can have an impact on improving public health. Scholars and researchers as well as policy makers involved with health research and international development will find this collection particularly valuable.

Download or read book Health Economic Development and Household Poverty written by Sara Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering: evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poor innovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor. Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchers engaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.

Download or read book Three Essays on Social Health Insurance in Developing Countries written by Stephen Ofori Abrokwah and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 2 billion people live in developing countries with health systems constrained by inequitable access and inadequate funding. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 150 million of these people suffer financial breakdown every year having to make unexpected out-of-pocket expenditures for emergency care. To improve health and reduce the financial burden on households, a number of developing countries, including Ghana, Colombia, and Peru, have recently introduced social health insurance programs which are heavily subsidized. The dissertation is a collection of three essays looking at how individual health care choices changed as a result of the availability of insurance coverage in Ghana. The first essay evaluates health care choices and out-of-pocket expenditures after the introduction of social health insurance covering modern health care services. When ill, an individual decides between a set of alternatives; no care, alternative (traditional) medicine, modern care and both alternative and modern care. My results show that when health insurance becomes available, individuals either switch to modern medical care or complement alternative care with modern care. I also find that out-of-pocket expenditures decrease significantly across all the different types of care as a result of health insurance. The second essay studies the effect of health insurance on household fertility decisions and examines whether the effect is due to women likely to become pregnant seeking out insurance or women with insurance changing fertility decisions. To disentangle the effects of adverse selection from moral hazard, I exploit district level variation in the dates of implementation of the national health insurance to instrument for insurance enrollment. My results suggest that both adverse selection and moral hazard effects were present and fertility increased with insurance. The third essay examines the role of social health insurance on prenatal care and expenditure using a two part model. Results show that health insurance increases the propensity of pregnant women to seek prenatal care relative to the uninsured. Insured pregnant women are more likely to seek prenatal care, but conditional on any spending, they spend less out-of-pocket compared to the uninsured.